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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:38:48 -0400
From:      "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: the art of pkgdb -F
Message-ID:  <20070329003848.GX11147@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20070328041618.55976dab@localhost>
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On 28/03/07 Gerard Seibert said:

> You can run:
>=20
> 	portmanager -u -p -l
>=20
> That will rebuild all broken and or missing dependencies for all of
> your ports.

How does it know what ports are installed? Originally, I thought that the
pkgdb was that source of information, so if it was gone, how could it be
rebuilt? Obviously there is installed package metadata elsewhere. Just not
sure where.

> If you just want to correct a single port, try this:
>=20
> 	portmanager /port/name-of-port -p -l

Thanks.
Mike
--=20
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." --Albert Einstein

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